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Managing the "hot spots": Health care, policing, and the goverment of poverty in the US
Fleming, Mark D., Janet K. Shim, Irene Yen, Leslie Dubbin, Ariana Thompson-Lastad, Christoph Hanssmann, and Nancy J. Burke. 2021. “Managing the ‘hot Spots’: Health Care, Policing, and the Goverment of Poverty in the US”. American Ethnologist, 1-15.
How neighborhoods influence health: Lessons to be learned from the application of political ecology
Chitewere, Tendai, Janet K. Shim, Judith C. Barker, and Irene H. Yen. 2017. “How Neighborhoods Influence Health: Lessons to Be Learned from the Application of Political Ecology”. Health & Place 45: 117-23.
"Housing Is Health Care": Treating Homelessness in Safety-net Hospitals
Hello, I'm Dr. Irene Yen
I'm the Principal Investigator and Director of the Lab. I'm a social epidemiologist, a public health professor at the University of California Merced and a Robert Wood Johnson Interdisciplinary Research Leadership fellow. My research is currently centered on the question of how place influences...
Our current research on housing, opportunity, place, and education
Educational Trajectories and Health This is a National Institutes of Health (NIH) funded study investigating education trajectories, the paths people take to complete their education, how it differs by sex, race/ethnicity, and family circumstances, and what the effect of different trajectories is on...
Sofia Aguilar
Sofia Aguilar, a native of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the University of California, Merced in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health. She was a Student Researcher in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of Public Health. In this role, Sofia...
Sofia Aguilar
Undergraduate Research Assistant Alum Sofia Aguilar, a native of Los Angeles, California, graduated from the University of California, Merced in 2024 with a bachelor's degree in Public Health. She was a Student Researcher in Dr. Yen’s Housing, Opportunity and Place (HOPe) Lab in the Department of...
Sofia Aguilar
Health care utilization among women of reproductive age living in public housing: Associations across six public housing sites in San Francisco
Headen, Irene E., Leslie Dubbin, Alison J. Canchola, Ellen Kersten, and Irene H. Yen. 2022. “Health Care Utilization Among Women of Reproductive Age Living in Public Housing: Associations across Six Public Housing Sites in San Francisco”. Preventive Medicine Reports 27.